what matters most? here are our core values…

The Core Values of Hope Hill Church describe the kind of people we want to be as we engage in our mission to Glorify God, Transform Lives and Impact the Wold.  These values serve as the foundation of our ministry and hopefully capture God’s thematic purposes found in Scripture. The expression and extension for each value can be found below.

:: Glorify God

truth
the first and most important thing hope hill church will be about is Jesus.  we must focus our eyes on the true Jesus, as one who holds all things together (Col 1:17).  Jesus is truth (Jn 14:6, Jn 16:13). He is revealed in the truth of Scripture (Jn 17:17) and we seek to glorify Him in truth (Ps 51:6).

worship
we all worship something.  your time, energy, creativity, money, and resources go to something that is ultimate.  the Cross frees us to focus our passions for the One, True, Ultimate. all of life is worship (Rom 12:1).

:: Transform Lives

deep community
Transformation happens in authentic, gritty, raw community (Pr 27:17). right now our people meet in homes and celebrate life with good food and good laughs.  a community of transformation has depth.   we stir one another up to love and good deeds (Heb 10:24). we pray together, struggle together, go through life’s messes together, deaths, pain, hurt.  through grace and love and truth the Gospel is made known and transformation occurs.

city-dwellers
we are called to bring about transformation in our city (Jer 29:7), not by railing against it from the outside but by loving it from the inside; by caring for orphans (and the poor), and widows (and single moms), and the homeless, and the fatherless, and the oppressed (Jas 1:27) – like Jesus (Luke 4:18-19).

:: Impact our World

everyday missionaries
reconciled christians are to live intentionally,  living out the ministry of reconciliation (2 Cor 5:18).  knowing that God put us where we are and when for His purpose (Acts 17:26), we herald the Gospel (Rom 10:14-15) and live it out being purposeful in everything we do.  hobbies, work, dinner, marriage, music – everything – is done on mission for the Gospel and for the city, and for the people of the city, like Jesus did (Jn 1:14, 17:18) – even as we seek the city to come (Heb 13:14).

iron sharpening iron
for any of this to happen we must sharpen one another.(Prov. 27.17) we all need to be  confronted, challenged, and trained.  we need to raise one another up and be instructed to love our spouses and lead our families (Eph 5:22-33, 6:4), lead our church (1 Tim 3), to lead and teach one another (2 Tim 2:2),   fight the good fight of faith (1 Tim 6:12), and build a counter-culture within our city (Rom 12:1-2)